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The happily ever after is what everyone is taught to search for since childhood. The idea that romance and love is perfect and will always have that “Happy Ending” that everyone strives for. But the reality is in my opinion there is no true happy ending, maybe you could have a successful ending but it wont always be happy. Life is about working through the difficulties in order to find happiness and success. Happiness is not something that magically happens like in fairy tales. Love is something that needs to constantly worked at in order to last. And pure love alone cannot sustain a relationship without all the other things that need to back it. I think that this short story more than ever showed me that these other things that need to be in a relationship is a solid foundation of morality and standards. Even though the author portrayed John and Mary’s story almost in a sarcastic manner, all of those options happen to real people, in real relationships everyday. These options are what has become normal in our society because people don’t have a standard of morality to have their relationships rely upon when the stress of the world takes a toll on their relationship. As Christians, I feel like we need to be examples to the world of what healthy relationships look like. I think that in general we are not doing our part, to show unbelievers that love doesn’t have to involve options that hurt. “Crying is bad for your face, everyone knows that and so does Mary but she can’t stop.” Mary knew her relationship was unhealthy and I can’t help but think if she had some form of support to rely upon other than John she would not have to hurt like she was throughout the options. That maybe she would know that although love isn’t always that perfect happy ending, it can be successful with a foundation in something that never changes; God.